The Sun has such a large gravitational field, that the comets are naturally drawn into the Sun ... and, boom, they are dommed to plunge into the hot, fiery star we call the Sun.

In an earlier incident, on January 3-4, 2010, NASA used its Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft to observe a large Kreutz comet plunging into the Sun.

The incident was written up in the January 6, 2010 iTWire article 'NASA catches Sun gobbling up a Kreutz comet.'

Another one was seen plunging into the Sun on March 12, 2010.

Now, on April 9-10, 2010, the Sun once again has pac-manned another comet.

This time, astronomers were left pretty much unaware of the presence of the comet until just before its demise in the early morning hours of April 10th.

Page two continues with more information about the comet, along with a video of the Pac-Man-like plunge into the Sun.

"Several of these fragments pass by the sun and disintegrate every day. Most are too small to see but occasionally a big fragment like today's attracts attention.'

And, 'This has been an active year for big, bright sungrazers. There was one on Jan. 4th, one on March 12th, and now one today. Normally we see no more than 3 or 4 bright ones in a whole year; now we're seeing them almost once a month."

"It could be a statistical fluctuation or, maybe, a swarm of Kreutz fragments is nearing perihelion (closest approach to the sun).'

A video, once again taken by the NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), recorded the incident.